Top Cat

A street-smart alley cat and self-appointed leader of a scrappy Manhattan gang, Top Cat originated in Hanna-Barbera animation before transitioning to comics, where he schemes to live the high life while dodging Officer Dibble's attempts to clean up his alley.

A Silver Age creation of the legendary Carl Barks, Top Cat made their comics debut in Walt Disney Uncle Scrooge #46 in 1963 — a genuinely eyebrow-raising origin for a character who would go on to share pages with Hanna-Barbera luminaries like Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound, Fred Flintstone, and George Jetson across nearly six decades of publication. Most at home in titles like Yogi Bear and Scooby-Doo, this Marvel-published figure carved out a modest but durable niche in the animated-characters-to-comics pipeline, with 27 catalog appearances and two collector-recognized key issues to their name. For fans of Silver Age funny-animal comics and the golden era of Saturday morning cartoons translated to the printed page, Top Cat is a charming and surprisingly deep rabbit hole worth diving into.